The Institute for Global Analytics is convening the international conference Central and Eastern Europe on the Frontlines: Forging Collaborative Solutions to Foreign Authoritarian-State Influence. It will take place on May 19 at Sofia Hotel Balkan Palace, Serdica Grand Hall, between 9 am and 5 pm. The event will gather a range of experts from across Central and Eastern Europe to start a cross-regional dialogue with a threefold set of goals:
- Exchange of perspectives regarding the major historically-inherited and contemporary challenges as regards Russian and Chinese influence activities (particularly disinformation) in the Baltics, Central Europe, Bulgaria;
- Singling out best practices on the government and civil societal level for tackling foreign authoritarian media influence from each country;
- Putting forward concrete proposals/action plan for cross-country collaboration: the contribution of the Three Seas Initiative; as well as better connecting Bulgaria to the wider Central European region and the Baltic countries.
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Dr. Alicja Bachulska, Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations/Research Fellow, CHOICE
Barbara Bačová, Analyst, media and disinformation expert, Institute for Global Analytics
Dalia Bankauskaite, Associate Professor, Vilnius University/Expert, Swedish Defence University
Rudolf Berkes, Policy Analyst (Russian and Chinese influence), Political Capital, Hungary
Dr. Rumena Filipova, Chairperson and Founder at the Institute for Global Analytics
Edward P. Joseph, Lecturer and Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Institute, Johns Hopkins SAIS
Pavel Havlíček, Central European Policy Fellow for Security Policy, Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Nikolai Klimeniouk, Freelance Journalist (Frankfurter Allgemeine, Neue Zürcher Zeitung)
Katarína Klingová, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Democracy & Resilience, GLOBSEC
Aleksandra Palkova, Researcher, Latvian Institute of International Affairs/Riga Stradins University
Matej Šimalčík, Executive Director, Asia expert, Central European Institute of Asian Studies
Liliana Śmiech, Vice President, energy and geopolitics expert, Warsaw Institute
Jason Steinhauer, bestselling author, founder of History Communication Institute, Global Fellow, Wilson Center
Dmitri Teperik, Senior Expert on Societal Resilience, countering Russian influence operations, Estonia
Nathalie Vogel, Senior Fellow, Kremlin Watch Program, European Values Center for Security Policy